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>> john: brand-new details this hour. the second assassination attempt of former president trump, the suspect ryan routh in custody and federally charged. new records show he spent nearly 12 hours near the golf course before being spotted in the trees. i am john roberts in washington. good day to you. imagine if that agent hadn't spotted him. the story we are telling today could be quite different. >> gillian: the barrel of that rifle pointing out at him through a chain-link fence and a whole bunch of bushes. it's quite extraordinary when you think about it. >> john: sharp eyes. >> gillian: better him out there than me. i am gillian turner in for sandra smith and this is "america reports." take a look at that spread the map shows just how close this guy was in the vicinity to former president trump. this sheriff said the house back was hiding 300-500 yards away

from of the former president. in shrubbery along the course. >> gillian: they spotted a rifle poking out of a fence where the x was marked. and that's when the agent when an action firing shots causing routh to flee. >> gillian: and new body cam video shows when they surrounded as a vehicle i-95 in martin county before they arrested him. look at this. we have a team of law enforcement experts and lawmakers across the next two hours. first to justice correspondent david spock with the latest on the investigation. >> routh has been charged with two federal crimes. we expect those charges to increase. they use these charges possession of a firearm by convicted felon in possession of a firearm with obliterated serial number just to keep him in custody at this point.

cell phone records place him at the scene from 1:59 a.m. on sunday to 1:30 p.m., almost 12 hours in the shrubs there on the fence line. according to our producer and court and these arch sketches from a couple hours ago, routh was laughing and looking around while talking to his public defender. he told the magistrate judge he understands the charges against him. we are told more charges are certainly possible but these are enough the government believes to keep him in custody right n now. the secret service justice department and fbi all taking different pieces of this pie. the doj of course with the charges, the fbi investigating routh himself, his background of prior crimes and its potential motive perhaps other accomplices paired the secret service once again looking in the mirror to do some self-reflection about how this happened. several officials said the secret service is not staffed to handle trump the way they handle joe biden or kamala harris. the reason, president biden is this sitting it commander in

chief with nuclear launch codes and vp harris is the second in line to the position and while trump is a former president and he is certainly in a unique position to want his old job back, he is still that, a former president your barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton and jimmy carter all have secret service protection round-the-clock and we are told trump's protection fall somewhere in the middle of those ex-presidents and the current president and vice president. but once again, there are secret service conversations underway right now from the highest levels all the way to the justice department. starting to beef up the perimeter as if donald trump is president. this happened two months and two days after butler, pennsylvania, pair there are increased calls to why is his perimeter are not the same as the current president of the united states? >> john: it is one of the questions out there. >> there is a news conference at 4:00 eastern time today. >> john: looking forward to that prethank you. let's bring a nicole parker,

number fbi agent and fox news contributor. we were talking to david about this before he came on with his report. the charges that routh is facing now is possession of a weapon while the felon and possession of a weapon with the serial number partially obliterated. david was saying those are easy charges just to hold him over when they make the bigger case against them just in case some judge would say you don't have your act together, i'm going to let him out on bond until you do come back with some real charges. what do you think about that? >> he's exactly right. i completely agree. as an fbi agent you go in there and you charge him with what you have rock solid at the time. they know there's more charges that will be coming but the investigation does take time. a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and an obliterated serial number is enough to keep him in the system right now. he went before a magistrate judge today and has an initial appearance in his detention hearing will be a week from today. they did the right thing in the

investigation is going full throttle behind closed doors right now. >> gillian: we don't have all the information yet, of course, nobody does including the fbi who is combing through evidence in and around that property. when you look back in terms of what we do know of what went down yesterday, in your estimation, what was it a secret service failure that we saw or was it a success? >> that is a very good question appeared i think it is both. i first would like to say the secret service agent that was walking the perimeter, i was reading the criminal complaint. they were walking the perimeter and they saw the firearm sticking through the fence and they acted immediately. they engaged with the subject immediately. that is in is in herbalism, that is success. but the fact that the individual was ever able to get that close to the golf course, that to me is failure. and it comes back to the same problem that we saw in butler, pennsylvania. the secret service, the rank the rank and file agents on the ground are doing the best that they can with the resources that

they have and those that are doing their jobs properly and attention to detail are extremely frustrated. keep in mind that today marks the united states -- the u.n. general assembly is going on right now in new york. that takes up a lot of secret service resources and i saw this coming even before. i thought that will scrap them for even more resources that they do not have. but again, that is a leadership problem. rank-and-file did the best that they could and we have to give accolades to the witness. a regular civilian who spotted an individual running out of the bushes and thought this does not look right and they took down the plate and submitted it and law enforcement put out a bolo. they put it into the license plate reader system and he was tracked down and arrested on i-95. absolutely phenomenal response but before, how did it get to this point? and we all understand a trump does not have enough detail. he does not. you cannot treat him like he is

a former president when he has more threats than probably anyone in the world right now. >> john: i was just doing some measurements on a map of the golf course. the shooter was hiding just off of the green by the sixth hole. he was 40 yards away from the green and about 40 feet away from the cart path. if at agent had not spotted the muzzle of that rifle sticking out from the fence and trump had proceeded from the fifth hole where he was at the time that routh was discovered, picking off the former president from that position with a rifle that routh had would have been so easy. we would be talking right now about a dead former president. >> i agree. i agree. and this is absolutely unconscionable to me that this is happening again. the butler, pennsylvania, rally, that was a rally. it is unacceptable appeared we still don't have answers to what happened at that rally but that was a public forum.

president trump was at his private golf course. he has a right to kept of his feet and relax and go for a game of golf if you would like with his friend. but the fact that this is continuing to happen, this cannot become the norm. and i fear that the mainstream media will be like here we go, another assassination attempt. just like how you get numb to school shootings. it is unacceptable and they have to get to the root of the problem and frankly this goes all the way up to mallorca's and all the way up to the president of the united states and frankly the vice president of the united states right now. >> gillian: nicole, thank you for taking time with us. we appreciate it. great to hear your perspective and insight into this as always. >> john: can we put that map back up again for a second? everybody is talking about that trump was 500 yards away. he was 500 yards away from the shooter at the time that the shooter was spotted. but that was not the shooter's intent it would seem. it looks like given his position there, secret in the woods, his

intent was to be within a few yards of the former president. there does not seem to be any intention to shoot him while he is on the green on the fifth hole or maybe even the tea on the sixth hole. waiting until he came up right in front of him when hitting him what would've been an absolute certainty. that agent, trump should buy him a big dinner with lots of champagne. >> gillian: compared to past with july 13th, this is a tale of triumph and coordination. it sounds like secret service spotted this, alerted others, alerted local police after the witness call came in went and found this guy within a mile of being notified that he was out on the road. a lot of things stacked up and went right even after the initial moment. >> john: i have been to that golf course a couple of times for trump events appeared i've never played golf there but it is so lush. there is so much foliage that to hide within the bushes on that perimeter would be a very easy thing to do.

but for that agent to be driving around and walking around in front of the former president and all of that foliage, all of that dense bush to say there is the muzzle of a gun and fire in that direction and chase a guy off, that was a miracle. that was a miracle. >> gillian: we are also tracking that speared the u.s. is on track to spend more than a trillion bucks this year on interest payments for the country's national debt. this is interest rates are reaching the highest level in nearly two decades. add lawrence's wife from the white house with all of the details on this. how it will affect us all eventually. hey edward. >> it is an unfortunate milestone now. the federal government has paid $1 trillion in taxpayer money to service the interest on the debt. we are not talking about bringing the debt down, we're talking interest payments. and the treasury department said

we will have a new record at the end of fiscal year 2024 where we have paid a $1.2 trillion on interest payments. the congressional office projects that with the $7 trillion passed into law under the biden-harris administration the debt problem will only grow. former trump economic advisor believes that coupled with the fact that the vice president wants tax increases remains a huge problem. >> it's a matter of fact that we are spending ourselves into oblivion appeared we are running up debts that have to be repaid and by the way, consumers have an enormous amount of debt. and the fact that you have this looming possible $5 trillion tax increase. that is what investors should be worrying about because those things will destroy our economy if they are allowed to continue. >> at the end of june the director told me that continually spending more than the government takes in will end badly. >> the termites undermining the foundation of our prosperity that is increasing the amount of our resources going to paying interest costs and that leaves

fewer dollars for everything else. and the problem is so large that there is no one single solution that does not affect many pe people. >> the interest payments are more than we spent on defense, more than we spend in the education department. the end of next fiscal year, the debt will be $37 trillion. >> gillian: all right. soon we will be talking about real numbers. thanks. >> john: vice president harris making her team do not case to the teamsters this afternoon. will she be able to win the unions key endorsement? >> trying to accuse president trump including how he managed to get so close. trump assassination attempt task force member florida congress meant mike waltz is here with that next. >> you have to assume they're out here doing surveillance for you have to assume there will be an instance where they will be more than one shooter.

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>> we represent everybody from airline pilots to zookeepers and we don't just represent registered democrats. we represent registered republicans and independents and we have to so we need to take into consideration and she recognized the diversity of our membership as it relates to political affiliation. >> john: teamster president speaking moments ago after this afternoon's roundtable with vice president harris. that was the motorcade we heard at the top of the program. democrats typically get the union's endorsement but it has yet to back a candidate in this presidential election. a few months ago, president trump was there to talk to the teamsters as well.

time to mobilize it it 1.3 million members is running out. peter doocy has the latest. do we have any indication they will make an endorsement? >> it doesn't sound like it will be today because we've been waiting for that press conference from sean o'brien and if there was going to be a huge 1.3 million member union endorsing harris they probably would have led with that. it will be at least another couple of days it would seem if it happens at all. sean o'brien who just heard from, the president of the teamsters was invited to speak at the republican national convention, not of the democratic national convention and he said in a statement he said we appreciate vice president harris taking the time to meet in person with rank and file teamsters. our members are the backbone of the nation working in all 50 states and representing every political background. we look forward to having a conversation on the direction of the country and the issues that matter to working people. the vice president has been talking ahead of the closed-door meeting with the teamsters more and more about her economic

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thank you. >> gillian: members of the bipartisan task force investigating that first attempted assassination of former president trump back on july 13th now want to know how this happened again a few weeks later. mike waltz is part of that task force and he serves on the house permanent select committee on intelligence. big picture, congressman, thank you for coming into being with us. i asked nicole parker a few moments ago but i want to know what you think. when you look back on yesterday knowing what we know right now, which could change, do you view events as a success for the secret service or as a failure or is it more complicated? >> it's mixed. clearly the agents responded appropriately as did the agents on july 13th. but there was a breakdown in terms of the perimeter, how that was established, and i think there is a bigger issue here that i have talked to acting secret service director rowe about and the committee needs to

take a hard look at. that is how the secret service allocates its resources. it is stuck in this paradigm. you are a sitting president and vice president you get this. you are former, you get that. obviously jimmy carter, w bush painting in his barn and president bush -- excuse me, president trump and how active he is and how the threats are coming in both foreign and domestic. they need to change this and make it thrust based protective details rather than this cookie-cutter approach. >> john: we've been saying why doesn't biden just tell his chief of staff to put the pull package? on trump. but you say that already happened. >> the director of the secret service said biden after july 13th said he, harris, and trump should have the same level of protection. maximum amount yet we see the sheriff down there saying we

locked the golf course down differently when he was a sitting president then just this past weekend. i raise that with director roe and he, to his credit, unlike cheadle who when we had congressional testimony had not visited butler, he got on a plane last night and it's getting down there and walking around and engaging. and he's a former florida cop so he knows a lot. >> john: why did you talk about this customer yesterday? >> yesterday. >> john: he said he didn't know why it wouldn't be the full package? >> they have beefed it up dramatically and they had. anybody who has traveled with the president can see that. but clearly there is a protocol disconnect or still a resource disconnect and the other piece he is saying they are maxed out. he also briefed us between all of the detail leaves and the u.n. and the meetings that biden is having this weekend, they are completely maxed but when i and others talk to agents, they are saying there are agents available. they want to travel and they

want the overtime. those are also disconnects that the task force has to get to the bottom of. >> gillian: if you put on your intelligence committee hat for a second and you think about the suspect here, this guy who has traveled to ukraine during wartime, who tried to insert himself into the conflict they are has tried to potentially recruit or rabble-rouser other americans to do the same, is there really any chance that this guy was not on the radar of the intelligence community and had not been spoken to by one of the departments and agencies? >> and i would add to that a lot of rhetoric, anti-israel rhetoric and terms of october 7th and his online book, i guess you would call it, apologizing to iran, calling for iran to assassinate the president and saying he would be certainly willing to help. how they did not catch the intention of our intelligence agencies, i don't know. but these iran threats and plots

are active and ongoing and this administration has said nothing. not even a strongly worded letter much less consequences. you talk about election interference, killing a leading candidate. >> gillian: we've seen the murder attempts in real time on u.s. oils. we sought a couple years ago. it's not like these are idle musings. >> and infiltrating the south border by venezuela and the pakistani who was arrested putting down payments on hit men. >> john: we saw the map a second to go. let's put it back up if we can't hear you were in the military and you know about staking out a potential target. what is your read of that? >> everybody down there knows that the photographers, the paparazzi, the journalists love to go to that area near hole five. that is why the agent was scrubbing it so closely. but i will tell you, a 100-300 yards shot with a scope, that is a 2-foot pup. >> john: it looked like he was

laying in wait. it looked like he was waiting for the president beyond the sixth hole or the for full. >> and that is even closer. >> done xp to use it some feet. >> john: 40 some feet away from the cart. >> that agent and the grace of god, to miracles and two months. >> john: someone is looking out for the president. >> that is what the speaker told him. this is divine intervention here for a higher cause. >> john: we look forward to i it. >> gillian: you can only get lucky so many times could you need to be prepared. >> john: we look forward to what the bipartisan task force has on all of this. take a look at this. pipeline explosion in a houston suburb. it has firefighters working to get the situation under control. look at that plume of flame. folks there are under a shelter-in-place order with the emergency responders at the ready.

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>> gillian: welcome back. residents of a houston suburb are fleeing their homes now after you can see they are a pipeline exploded and caught fire. officials in deer park are investigating the cause of the blast. firefighters are working to tame the blaze. fortunately no injuries reported so far but more than 4700 people are now without power. we will keep you updated on the story. >> john: questions piling up. how the suspect involved in the second assassination attempt of former present trump knew he would have a line of sight through that specific fence. did he stake out the course beforehand and how did he get so close to the former president

without rifle? let's bring in bill daley, former fbi investigator. i don't know if you heard us talking with the former green beret congressman michael walsh moments ago. but it would look as though the perpetrator had secret himself into the bushes just about 30 or 40 yards off the green on the sixth hole where he would have had an absolute easy shot of the president had he not been discovered. what do you make of what you know so far? >> first of all it shows that there is preplanning here. not just the equipment that he brought to the scene, but the fact that he knew and whether this is based upon past times when he knows the president plays that course and maybe he plays on the weekends or perhaps he knew that as you mentioned earlier in the broadcast is photographers and other publicity hounds may go to that area to be able to get a glimpse of the president as he went by in a cart or was going to tee off. but you combine that with some

of the images you have been showing which are alien of the ills golf course. you go down to google maps. there's a lot of brick kind of innocence. they scope it out in person. >> john: and there's a big difference between this suspect and the fellow who took a shot at president trump and butler, pennsylvania, paired that kid was an unknown with the exception that they had encrypted overseas accounts that we don't know what he was doing on but this guy, routh, as was an open book on social media. he wrote an online book that he published encouraging iran to take out donald trump. >> yes. i am quite taken aback by this. i would tell you yesterday as the news was breaking, i made notes to myself and one of the notes was was he on a radar? he should have been and all that

we are learning now and this may just be the initial load of information is that he certainly had a footprint and a profile whether online or international exposure. perhaps he has traveled overseas. why wasn't he on someone's watch list? there's a lot of questions that still need to be taken from this. and one of the things that strikes me as i am still very concerned. very concerned as we get near the election appeared we have maybe 49 days before the actual election date. voting starts in other states before that time. in pennsylvania, i think in a matter of days. we've only had 64 days since the last incident. we have two incidents against the former president within 64 days. we have another 50 days to go. the propensity for someone to be a copycat or carry out something more elaborate. don't forget, these two individuals were amateurs. this is not a hit team is sent by some foreign government or people with military training.

these people just concocted these plans themselves. i'm very much concerned about the ongoing security especially as we start ramping things up with rhetoric or travel plans or being out in public spaces to shake hands and be with the electorate. that is one of the concerns i have and hopefully the secret service can draw from homeland security personnel who are properly trained to support them if they need more reso resources. >> john: the irony here is this was two months and about three days from july 13th. and that tracks almost to the day with what happened with gerald ford. there were two assassination attempts on him back in the 1970s within nine weeks of each other. and you heard michael just a minute ago saying it is his belief that joe biden told the secret service to put on the full presidential package but yet you have a will snyder who is the sheriff in martin county saying because he is a former president he does not have the full package and the question is

which is it? >> which is at and i would tell you that if you talk about it, certainly i would have rather heard that from the secret service rather than local sheriff sheriff speaking about this but one of the concerns is not just what haven't we learned sense in general for dates? we should be further down the road with sophisticated view to which is online which didn't exist back then or more elaborate drone frontage or secure thermal imaging and various technologies which might be used. one of the concerns and i hate to be someone just raising concerns but i think it is important to raise is during the course of these congressional hearings number press reports, whether in the butler incident or down in palm beach, unfortunately we have pulled the curtain up a bit. the genie is a bit out of the bottle on some of the aspects of personal and presidential

protection and i do think that the secret service is going to need to take it into account as they move forward because people have heard about things that they do. an advance team moving along the golf course. other aspects which i think will need to be remediated. >> john: with real, real quick. just to drive from the seriousness of what happened yesterday, if that eagle-eyed agent had not spotted that gun barrel poking through the fence, where you think we would be today? >> we would've had an election be decided by an assassin's bullet which is not what we want in this country. it's a sad thing and we want to make sure it does not happen on any side of the political aisle because we will with the election take place and people casting their ballots and not by default because we have lost one of the candidates to an assassin. >> john: bill daley great to talk with you. thank you for the analysis. >> gillian: days after making history, the spacex crew of the polaris dawn mission is back home now. we have a live report on that

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taxpayer dollars for that? she has flip-flopped on a number of things. where does she stand with this? senior national correspondent william la jeunesse has the details for us. >> we don't know because she won't say even when goaded during the debate. what we do know is what harris has said and done in the past. california became the first state to pay for sex reassignment surgery for transgender inmates in 2015. the following lawsuits from male inmates, two male inmates who wanted to become women. state ag at the time kamala harris helped make it happen. >> i know it was historic in california but i believe it may have been one of the first if not the first in the country where i pushed for that policy. >> several states followed california which so far has paid about $4 million out in sex reassignment treatments for more than 1600 inmates.

>> i made sure that they change the policy in the state of california so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need. >> that was harris in 2019 speaking to the national center for transgender equality. >> now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison. >> is it true? in 2019 they asked democratic candidates including harris as president will you use your executive authority to ensure transgender people including those in prison and in immigration detention have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition including surgery. harris said yes, i will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment. today, her campaign says that is not her position.

>> this is not what she is proposing, it is not which he is running on. >> we have asked the campaign to clarify. is it all transgender on medicaid, is it only those in prison, does it include those who are criminal aliens question rick we have not heard from them. the center that she spoke to stands behind her saying her career and record speaks for itself. back to you. >> john: the campaign says that is not what she's running on but she is set in that interview she has not changed her values so what do we think? >> we are supposed to expect a response because we want clarification. we know what you did and we know what you claim to do what you bragged that you did, but the comment that was made to bill hemmer is undefined saying that is not which is proposing, that is not which he is running on. you need to tell us exactly what she is running on. >> john: right now it is as

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>> driver! take two steps to your right! take two steps to your right! >> gillian: former president trump now praising law enforcement for the really quick reaction to yesterday's apparent assassination attempt. the suspect was taken into custody in martin county just north of palm beach. william snyder was on the scene to apprehend the suspect who joins me now. sheriff, thank you for taking time with us on what must be an insane day for you. talk to us from your perspective how those moments went down yesterday. >> i can tell you this. it was very tense. we were aware that we were making probably what would be

the most high profile stop in the history of stops. we did have the bolo from the sheriff's office. we did note the vehicle description, the tag it, we knew they were northbound on i-95. my patrol deputies, we poured onto the interstate and my patrol deputy picked that vehicle out of the traffic, called out the location, surrounded it with heavy duty trucks, forced it off the road, then at gunpoint got the suspect out of the vehicle and safely in custody. >> gillian: and all within a handful of minutes. >> i think the incident in palm beach county with president trump was right around 1:55 p.m. but we received the information at 1:55 p.m. but our initial information was shots had been fired. we thought we were stopping a would-be assassin of the former president of the united states. now it is turned out perhaps

shots were not fired but nonetheless, we operated on that potential and that information and made the stop thinking we were encountering an assassin of the former president. >> gillian: what was he like? ryan routh when you apprehended him. >> right after the stop, what i saw was someone who is very poised, very in control of himself. even though we had armed to deputies all over the place, probably 30 deputies out there, rifles, helicopter overhead, both north and south on i-95 shut down. he's in the middle of it all, never asked what's this about? when i saw that, i realized he knew what time it was. he knew that the day was up and he was caught. >> gillian: i don't know if you can answer this question but i would like to ask you in a chance that you can. it sounds like secret service

coordinated with you guys really fast yesterday. that everything happened after the suspect was there on the scene happened the way you would want to to happen. right? >> the coordination between the sheriff's office which gave us the information and my patrol deputies was flawless. had it not been for a civilian witness who did the right thing, gave us a description and a picture of it, actually, and it had the sheriff's office not been so good about getting that information out, that guy would've gotten past us and who knows what would've happened next. >> gillian: who knows. we shudder to think but blessedly we are not in that position today. it is a whole new world and hopefully going forward we will get some answers about what exactly went on with the suspect. sheriff, thank you again for taking time with us. we appreciate it. >> god bless appear to have a great day.

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next generation of spacex suits that he and the three private astronaut crewmates he was working with tested is the first step on that journey. while critics say the cost of his mission would be better spent on earth, he insists it's on a binary choice as he explores the cosmos and building children's hospitals of same time. during the mission crewmembers did a book reading and a space to ground violin performance to raise funds for several charities including st. jude children's research hospital and another charity. this morning isaac min posted on social media as we work to address today's problems we also look to the future we want our children to grow up and as a crew we've always believed in humanity's destiny among the stars and he says that journey to space has only underscored that belief.

>> that was a picture-perfect splashdown. >> i know quite amazing. >> that can you imagine being up there in space? being up there in the capsule is one thing but to be up there and poke your head at the top. >> pretty wild. bitter him than me. >> what's interesting as well is gemini for with the very first base block and they astronaut was way before hanging out. these guys were still hanging onto the spacecraft themselves but it is still something they've only been doing this for four years. >> thanks to the sandra bullock movie we all know what could go wrong when they are up there tethered to one little, you know, rope or whatever. >> you're thinking about the george clooney movie? >> that was so terrifying. when they get disconnected and float away to space forever. >> i think the whole movie itself was terrifying. and not in a good way. thank you for being with us. >> the story with martha starts right now and here she is. >> martha: m